“We’d heard so many stories about how it had been so difficult for some people and obviously we thought it was going to be difficult for me because of what had already happened,” Byrne told The Telegraph.

Byrne told news.com.au in October their relationship had been able to survive past their reality TV start because Johnson had been genuine.

“I was really lucky with Matt in that everything he said he wanted — that at the time I believed — when we got out of the show the way he acted and the way he behaved was exactly in line with the things he said he wanted,” she said.